Cedric Leighton

Cedric Leighton was a US Air Force colonel and a Deputy Director at the National Security Agency in 2010.

Biography
Cedric Leighton joined the US Air Force in 1984, serving as an intelligence officer. He witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, oversaw critical special operations missions (being five times deployed in the Middle East), led a Tactical Integration Team that enabled the destruction of 95% of Saddam Hussein's air defense system during the Iraq War, and also served in South Asia and Southeast Asia. He retired in 2010, and he founded Cedric Leighton Associates, a strategic risk and leadership management consultancy. He also became a prominent strategic risk expert on the news.